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These Chocolate Chip Butternut Squash Muffins are made with bananas, squash, and whole-grain oats. They bake up tender, delicious, and full of flavor. They’re a healthy, gluten-free treat everyone loves!
I’ve fallen in love with a new muffin. Chocolate Chip Muffins with Butternut Squash! Butternut squash is one of my favorite ingredients in the fall. I make my roasted butternut salad on repeat! And I knew when I tasted the batter they were gonna be terribly good. They’re wholesome and hearty you don’t even know they have a veggie stashed in them. Sneaky.
I’m not sure I could ever pick a favorite muffin although banana bread muffins still have a piece of my heart. I guess I can have multiple loves, but for right now these Chocolate Chip Butternut Squash Muffins are my love muffins. Hope you love it!
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Why You Will Love Butternut Squash Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Healthy Muffins. The main ingredient in this muffin recipe is butternut squash which is high in vitamin A, vitamin C, magnesium, and potassium. These muffins are also dairy-free, gluten-free, and nut-free.
- Quick and Easy to Make: Mixing the muffins takes just minutes of active time.
- Versatile Baked Good: Enjoy these muffins for breakfast, brunch, or as a healthy butternut squash dessert.
Ingredients
Let’s take a look at the main ingredients you will need to gather to make these gluten-free muffins with butternut squash and chocolate chips.
- Bananas: For best results make sure they are very ripe. The riper the bananas the more sweetness they add as well they’re easier to mash.
- Butternut squash puree: I use canned squash puree to save time but you can make your own my cooking butternut squash and mashing it.
- Egg whites: I like using egg whites as the binder for this easy recipe. You can also use a whole egg if you prefer.
- Maple syrup: Adds a bit of sweetness that’s less processed than using granulated sugar.
- Spices: These chocolate chip butternut squash muffins are flavored with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.
- Baking soda: Gives your blender muffins a bit of lift.
- Flour: This recipe uses a combination of gluten-free baking flour such as the 1-to-1 flour by Bob’s Red Mill and gluten-free oat flour.
- Rolled Oats: Make sure you choose gluten-free oats as not all oatmeal is gluten-free.
- Mini chocolate chips: Choose non-dairy chocolate chips such as Enjoy Life to keep this recipe dairy-free.
How to Make Butternut Squash Muffins
Mixing these muffins takes just minutes. Here’s a look at the main steps you will take to make them. Be sure to check the recipe card for the full details.
- Combine the bananas, egg whites, coconut oil, maple syrup, and butternut squash in a food processor or blender. Process or blend until the wet ingredients are smooth.
- Add both types of flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt to the food processor or blender. Process again until the mixture is smooth.
- Transfer the ingredients to a mixing bowl. Add the oats and chocolate chips to the bowl and fold them into the batter.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin pan openings filling each only three-quarters full.
- Bake the muffins for 15 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and cool for 5 minutes in the pan. Transfer the muffins to a baking rack to finish cooling.
How to Store
- Store: Store your baked muffins in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week. If you want to enjoy it warm, you can pop it in the microwave for a few seconds.
- Freeze: To extend their shelf-life place them in a freezer-safe container and store them for up to two months.
Expert Tips
- Transfer your muffins to a cooling rack after cooling for five minutes in the pan after removing them from the oven. This will prevent tough or overcooked muffins.
- Don’t like chocolate chips? You can swap them for dried cranberries or raisins instead.
- Use muffin liners or spray your pan well. Both of these options are ideal to prevent sticking.
- Sprinkle some chocolate chips on top of the muffins right before baking if you want the chocolate chips more visible.
- Make sure you measure your flour properly to avoid tough or dry muffins.
Recipe FAQs
If you don’t need them to be gluten-free you can swap the 1-to-1 flour for regular all-purpose flour but I don’t recommend mixing it in the blender. Instead after blending the bananas and butternut squash, transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and stir in the flour by hand. This will prevent over-activating the gluten in the flour which may make these muffins tough.
This butternut squash muffin recipe works great with pumpkin or you can also use acorn squash or buttercup squash instead.
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Healthy Butternut Squash Muffins with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 2 bananas, very ripe, mashed
- ½ cup butternut squash puree
- 2 egg whites
- ½ cup coconut oil, melted
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ginger
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup Gluten Free 1:1 Baking Flour
- ⅔ cup Gluten Free Oat Flour
- ¾ cup Gluten Free Rolled Oats
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips, or dairy free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven 375 F. Prepare a muffin tin with cooking spray.
- In a food processor or blender, add bananas, egg whites, coconut oil, maple syrup and butternut squash. Process until wet ingredients are smooth.
- Next add the 2 flours, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt to the food processor or blender. Process until smooth.
- Transfer the ingredients to a mixing bowl. Add the oats and chocolate chips and fold into the batter.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin cavities 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool in the pan 5 minute before transferring to a baking rack to cool another 15 minutes before eating.
- Store muffins in the refrigerator up to 1 week or freezer up to 60 days.
Notes
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- Transfer your muffins to a cooling rack after cooling for five minutes in the pan after removing them from the oven. This will prevent tough or overcooked muffins.
- Don’t like chocolate chips? You can swap them for dried cranberries or raisins instead.
- Use muffin liners or spray your pan well. Both of these options are ideal to prevent sticking.
- Sprinkle some chocolate chips on top of the muffins right before baking if you want the chocolate chips more visible.
- Make sure you measure your flour properly to avoid tough or dry muffins.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ahhhh you have my empathy. I’m having chest pain just thinking about money. It’s SO STRESSFUL. My mat leave is up and we decided that I’ll stay home because child care costs more than I’d ever make. Sad, eh? Ya. Frick. The muffins look great, though. Love that there’s a veggie in there. Makes it all worth while.
I can’t even imagine. My friends have told me how expensive childcare is. It is sad, but on the upside you have more time to blog right?
I feel you on the money hemorrhaging. Moving isn’t cheap! At least it’s a good move. AND at least you’re straightened out now (mostly).
Can I make a pit stop in AZ for a muffin?
Haha…I will always be special. Stop by on your way to CA, that would be fun!
Oh, yum. I haven’t made muffins in ages, but these got me pretty excited to go pick up a squash and give it a go. I love your gingham napkin or tablecloth in the photos, too!
Thank you, I took the easy way out & bought my squash canned. Enjoy Meg!
These look sooooo good! I’ll have to try with gluten free flour.
Hope you like them, let me know how the GF works for you.
I never thought to mix squash and banana in my muffins but it sounds fabulous! I’ll have to give this a try!
Hope you enjoy them!
I still can’t believe it took us so long to start incorporating veggies into muffins and sweets!! They wouldn’t have the unhealthy reputation they have now. Oh well it is never to late, right? Love that you used squash! 🙂
I do too, I’m obsessed with these muffins!
Yummm Squash and Banana… I’ve never mixed the two but now I have to try it these look delish!
You can’t go wrong with fruit and veggie in a muffin. 🙂
You keep outdoing yourself on the muffins! I’ve made acorn squash pancakes but never bn squash muffins. I’m sure they’re amazing!
I’ve never made an acorn squash. I should get on that.
butternut squash in muffins?!!?! ammmaazing! does it get any better? Thanks for linking up with us today, we love your muffin recipes, especially when they are as creative as this! Sorry to hear about the bills, that is frustrating, and hopefully you can get it figured out 🙁
Thanks for listening to me complain. Enjoy the muffins! Got some new fun recipes coming up this month.
squash and banana together how creative! Yum. Thanks for linking up again great to have you as always!
Have a great vacation!